After the turmoil in Kerube, Lawrence and his companions make for the
Kingdom of Winfiel across the sea. Their destination is the great abbey
of Brondel, said to hold the wolf bones they seek. Arriving in the
kingdom, they hear tell that the abbey, normally prosperous due to its
great wool trade, has fallen into a financial crisis. Worse, the most
powerful economic force in the world-the Ruvik Alliance-is entering the
kingdom with its eye upon the abbey's land holdings...